Hello Roy, Please tell me where you gained the following info.... "I ran the wire under the trim and fitted a cigarette splitter, "they don't recommend to hard wire the camera into the car as this can cause damage to the camera"I feel a "rant" No a mega rant with Halfords if this is true A cool steering wheel BTW Cheers, Mike.

Only going by what is said in the instructions that came with my dash cam, however you can hot wire cams into the car, check you instructions first, might just be a disclaimer just in-case you wire it incorrectly and then you warranty is invalid

I'm sure if Halfords fitted it, you be fine and if any problems, it will be on their backs

wingnut wrote:Nice job Roy ! now that's what I call a " grower" of a car !

number1 wrote:Certainly a head turner, you both must be well pleased

To be honest, Jess and I are not pleased with the results of the respray. Up until now, we have not said much.

Back in June of 2017, we had issues with the paint work. Paint started to, bubble and crack. We went straight back to Alan and Julie and they said that they would sort it. Back then, they still had the hardtop to complete and welding and under seal to complete.

We also were still losing air from the rims of our old wheels. The whole point of them sanding the wheels down and painting them was for stopping them leaking at the rims and not for cosmetic reasons.

Also the new window trim that we provided to them for the hard top was not fitted correctly, they failed to clean out the channel that holds the rubber, so to fit the trim, they cut the rubber trim and then used tiger seal to hold it in place. This came away again. I had returned to car to them to refit the trim, but again, the trim is not holding in place.

April this year the car went back to them to complete the underseal and welding. It was at this point they told us that they weren't going to correct the paint or refit the window trim as they wasn't going to guarantee it.

We have sent them 3 official letters of intent to take them to court to claim our money back. They have failed to respond to all our letters. No we are at the stage of now taking court action.

The leaking wheel rims are now so bad, the on Thursday, I replaced them with a set on new alloy wheels

These are stone chips which is what you expect from driving around, but the car is full of them, the paint should be strong enough to deflect a stone without it causing any damage. But we feel the amount of stone chips on the car is very excessive for a years worth. The pic just shows a few of many.

That’s such a shame, after all the trouble you had to get them to finish it. Good luck with the small claims court. I can’t see that they’ve got much of a defence, but it might be worth getting some professional legal advice to make sure you do it right and know what to expect.

Ouch ! Hi Roy and Jess, I'm sorry to read this For what it's worth my advice would be to threaten them with the trading standards and/or the local press with your story of how you have been treated/cheated by these bandits, it's not like you have hounded / pressed them for a "quick fix" to be honest you have been more than patient with them I have followed your posts about your "Eunos" I still recall Jess smile. If I can help in any way PM me.

We tried to give them the opportunity to put things right as oppose to name and shame them. We have already have free legal advice and sent them all the appropriate letters. Our free legal team also have gone behind our backs and reported them to trading standards. I get the impression from our free legal team that their name has cropped up before

We even contacted Judge Rinder before the summer and they had recently contacted us. Unfortunately, it's just a TV program and looks like the body shop people have decline to appear. It would have been a win win for them, because if we had won the case, then it's the TV company that pays out and not them.

We can quiet easily name and shame them on Face Book, but we decided that this could go against us if we do.

I thought that I give you an update on our legal case with regards to the poor paint work on our car against Tripple C auto.

I'm pleased to inform you that last month that we won our case and won damages/compensation. For legal reasons, I can't discuss the details, but here are a few more photos that we used as evidence in our claim. We had many more photos than that shown below that were used as evidence. The car was also examined by a service engineer that also confirmed that there were issues with the work carried out.

The defendants denied that they worked on certain areas of our car, despite the fact that they took the following photos and posted them on their facebook page

The compensation will not cover the full cost of repairing the mess of the paintwork. I may use the money to set myself up with my own portable spray booth, airbrush and compressor to spray the car myself. I've just met our new neighbours that will be moving in fully this weekend and they have a grandson that lives with them, I over heard him talking about getting the garage door replace before he get's his project car, so sounds like he could be helpful Failing that, I've a good few contacts in the business as well as the guys from the East Coast Pirates. I'm not planning to do anything over the winter, but hopefully I will make a start hopefully in a couple of years time. The car is still roadworthy.

Hi Roy, so glad the legalities are done and dusted matey but not happy at all for the way you were treated by these so called professionals, that really was a shocking job and so upsetting for you both after all your hard work previously to get her ready. Have you decided what to do as regards a new paint job.I need a stereo like that Roy, its very good for Jess to put on all her favourite 80's tracks on from her phone while you drive mark

I'm not 100% sure yet, because the legal proceedings has taken up most of our time, we have a lot to catch back up on as and we now have more important things that will need our attention next year, but hopefully in 2021, I will be able to purchase our own auto car spray gun, compressor and spray booth and I'm hoping to do it myself with the help of some of our contacts.